The language capacity: architecture and evolution

There is substantial evidence that the human language capacity (LC) is a species-specific biological property, essentially unique to humans, invariant among human groups, and dissociated from other cognitive systems. Each language, an instantiation of LC, consists of a generative procedure that yiel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chomsky, Noam, Chomsky, Avram Noam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106888
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3632-2461